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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in grey slip painted in white slip and black under a clear glaze
Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a grey slip with decoration painted in yellowish slip and outlined in black under a clear glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with plain rim sitting on a low, wide foot ring.
Interior: rim is painted black, while the remainder of decoration is painted in yellowish slip, outlined or detailed in black, against a background of black dashes. On the body, a frieze of flying phoenix and birds is painted against a background of leaves, all enclosed within two concentric white bands. These animals are separated by a pear shaped cartouche containing further leaves. On the base a prancing stag, with a dotted coat, is painted against leaves and lotus flowers.
Exterior: black decoration on the rim continues on the exterior, above a band of yellowish slip. On the body, radiating from a black concentric line on the lower body, a lotus petal design is painted in yellowish slip, outlined in black with a central black dotted line. Glaze runs unevenly over the lower body, at times reaching the foot ring. The underside of the foot ring has spots of glaze.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9 cm
Weight: 552 g
Width: 20.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
Late 13th - 14th century
Circa
1275
-
Circa
1399
Interior
composed of
pigment
( black, blue)
glaze
( clear)
slip
( grey, coats vessel)
slip
( painted to form decoration)
Exterior Body
composed of
slip
( grey, coats vessel)
slip
( yellowish, painted to form decoration)
Rim
Diameter 20.1 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Throwing : Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a grey slip with decoration outlined in black and embellished with yellowish slip under a clear glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around top and right hand edge
Accession number: C.90-1935
Primary reference Number: 76331
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.16
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76331 Accessed: 2022-09-27 22:44:26
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-09-27 22:44:26|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76331
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